History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III

by James Anthony Froude

[620] Ellis, second series, Vol. II. p. 160.

[621] Ellis, second series, Vol. II. p. 160; this is apparently the letter printed by Burnet, Collectanea, p. 500.

[622] “Vereor ne frustra cum Reverendissimâ Dominatione vestrâ per litteras de Cromwelli resipiscentiâ sum gratulatus, nec enim quæ typis sunt excusa quæ ad me missa sunt, in quibus novissima ejus verba recitantur, talem animum mihi exprimunt qualem eorum narratio qui de ejus exitu et de extremis verbis mecum sunt locuti.”—Pole to Beccatelli: Epist. Vol. III.

[623] Prayer of the Lord Cromwell on the Scaffold: Foxe, Vol. V.

[624] His death seems to have been needlessly painful through the awkwardness of the executioner, “a ragged and butcherly miser, who very ungoodly performed the office.”—Hall.

[625] “Men know not what part to follow or to take.”—Foxe, Vol. V.